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About 4 - there are different schools of thought about defining your permalink structure. Some people are strongly opposed to incorporating date characters into the URL, as it firmly fixes your posts at a certain point in time, which may turn some people off if they encounter them at some point in the future. Adding the word "blog" is interesting and something I've never considered before: is that in anticipation of a more function-filled website of which the blog is a part?
Great work!
I would mention one point in addition - Be clear about your goals from this venture and about your motivations. When starting out its easy to be very confused on why one is spending all this effort. Some possibilities here, blog for i)pleasure ii) knowledge sharing iii)personal branding iv) exploration. Of course this is not a black or white categorization and multiple overlaps is the norm.
Regardless of what combination it is, the outcome has to be measured. If you started out wanting to do this for pleasure, ask yourself if you are having fun or just plodding through because its the latest fad. Basically, consider your ROI very seriously. Without it you might not even realize a course correction is needed and head out way out of track from your original goal.
This has been implicitly covered in your points but thought it would be good to be a little explicit for someone starting out.
Thanks again for sharing!
We have created a Flash Animation on "What is Social Media" and "Social Media Casestudy: CommonCraft".
I thought you might be interested.
http://vizedu.com/2008/10/social-media-explaine...
http://vizedu.com/2008/10/social-media-casestud...
Thanks
I agree with Mark that there are differing views on permalinks. I actually prefer to remove the date from mine and use only the post title.
And I was really happy to see your mention of diigo. While I still prefer delicious, diigo does allow you to bookmark to all three sites like you mentioned. When I first started doing that it was more for bookmark insurance - if one site disappeared my bookmarks would still exist somewhere else. Only later did I think of the social aspect of it.
I am, however, often hesitant to share my own stuff. You suggested sharing your own content in Google reader. Is that really an acceptable practice?
On a side note, I am slowly trying to spend more time with friendfeed :-)
You have a very valid point regarding the permalink structure. It's a tough call, but a majority of the blogs, including you an I, all use the date/time in the permalink. I think it's almost become a standard at this point. It does firmly affix your post to a certain point in time as you mentioned, but from a search engine perspective I wonder how much it weighs or is factored in the serps, and or algorithms. If the date does not throw them off in serps, it will once the they hit blog from the time stamp or comments :)
I think adding the word blog is more beneficial for search engines. If the site is just a blog, a majority of the searches for it will contain blog in the keywords, i.e Broadcasting Brain Blog, Mark Dykeman+ Blog. Definitely having the keyword blog in the url helps, but how much is a good question. As we both know people will find our sites/blogs regardless of the fact. I think it cant hurt, and to some extent might spark anticipation to explore other areas on the site.
Thank you. I'm glad to see more people using Diigo. It's really such an under valued tool. It has so many social aspects and features, that people tend to get intimidated and never use it to it's full potential. I think you should absolutely share you own content, when it's your best quality stuff. I do mention often, not to share and promote your own content. This is because others will do it for you. Often when people are starting out they lack a big enough network for exposure. Under those circumstances share your best stuff, until you build up a network and platform for exposure. On a side note, I need to get you more active on FriendFeed :-)
well done!
Thanks very much for the above note. Here is the Flash embed for "Social Media" flash.
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Let me know how it goes.
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Thanks Michael for sharing.
I liked it a lot!
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